Reposted by Matt SamsCasey Drottar @caseydrottar.bsky.social · 26/09/2026My goodness, what an incredible moment. After Justin Verlander secured the final out of his career, Tigers manager A.J. Hinch came out of the dugout...to summon Verlander's daughter out to embrace her dad on the mound. 642333460
Matt Sams @mattsams.com · 17/09/2026I saw how hot it is in NC right now, good luck with the race prep! 021
Reposted by Matt SamsU.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 16/09/2026Happy Baby Safety Month. 853613920
Matt Sams @mattsams.com · 04/09/2026Well, it nailed my ass. I grew up in Northeast Tennessee and now live in Arizona, though I spent a few years in Upstate NY and New Jersey 120
Matt Sams @mattsams.com · 21/08/2026I drove that road every day growing up; there’s no way he didn’t see the peloton as soon as he rounded the corner at Simerly Creek, which is more than a quarter mile from where he hit them 010
Matt Sams @mattsams.com · 10/08/2026In our Wednesday running group of ~ 50 people, I think 7 of us are tall, bald white guys, so I feel this. 000
Reposted by Matt SamsAndaliteBandit @andalitebandit.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Found this on Tumblr with the caption, "Saw a fire, stopped his car, got out and Madonna'd the fuck out of those flames". I want him carnally. 482880707
Reposted by Matt SamsKansas City Royals @royals.com · 18/07/2026The KC kid with his first walk-off hit! 18511
Matt Sams @mattsams.com · 18/07/2026Just pulled up my Smite stats, and Jesus Christ. I don’t think this includes the beta or seasons 0-2, so definitely 2,000+. Thankfully, I haven’t touched it since 2023 000
Matt Sams @mattsams.com · 08/07/2026Driving in Phoenix, I see at least one landscaping truck a day with unsecured trash cans and tools rolling around their trailers. Special shout out to the guy who had two ladders bouncing on hooks that were attached to the side of his work truck 000
Matt Sams @mattsams.com · 03/07/2026Still hoping I’ll break a poorly implemented license plate database one day 010
Reposted by Matt SamsGrant McDermott @gmcd.bsky.social · 03/07/2026𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐲𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐭 v0.7.0 now available on CRAN 🎉 This is big release, with loads of new features. Same tiny footprint, though ;-) Short highlight thread below, borrowing examples from our gallery: grantmcdermott.com/tinyplot/vig... 48726
Reposted by Matt SamsU.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 29/06/2026You've got to think about that famous scene from 'The Rock' (1996). Stanley Goodspeed is holding the "string of pearls" virus container that he's just removed from its housing. He looks Sean Connery dead in the eye and says, "The second you don't respect this, it kills you." That's the energy. 743148
Reposted by Matt SamsCJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 22/06/2026Messi's persistence pays off, 2-0 Argentina 736887
Reposted by Matt SamsCJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 22/06/2026Messi doesn't miss this one, 1-0 Argentina. He now has the most goals scored in World Cup play all time 15494104
Matt Sams @mattsams.com · 19/06/2026Funny enough, Llama’s hallucination of me being a software engineer is the only one that’s even close. Too bad working in sports != playing in said sports 010
Reposted by Matt SamsSMBC Comics @smbccomics.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Later the drug dealer gets nostalgic about how in the 90s economy you could give out the first one free. COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/deal PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm... STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com 117428
Reposted by Matt SamsBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 16/06/2026jesus christ NO! NO!!! FUCK 918181093033
Reposted by Matt Samslefred @lefredbe.bsky.social · 09/06/2026When the sea lion learns to quack: #DuckDB now swims into #MariaDB 🦭🦆 mariadb.org/duckdb-stora...mariadb.orgDuckDB Storage Engine for MariaDB. When the Sea Lion Learns to Quack. - MariaDB.orgAn early look at the DuckDB storage engine for MariaDB — columnar, vectorized analytics that live right next to your transactional tables. The problem MariaDB’s InnoDB is excellent at what it was buil... 293
Reposted by Matt SamsThe Onion @theonion.com · 09/06/2026Commentary: I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake theonion.comI Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try CakeHello. I am a horse. I work very hard at my job of being a horse. When humans say move the heavy thing, I move the heavy thing. When humans sit on top of me and pull on my head, I carry them where the... 9492092225
Matt Sams @mattsams.com · 01/06/2026I stopped using it when I caught myself calling someone a fucking idiot for saying they try to sideswipe cyclists riding on the neighborhood’s parkway. I’d rather stay blissfully unaware that people like him exist 060
Matt Sams @mattsams.com · 01/06/2026We had three bond initiatives last year (build a teaching hospital, build additional resources for a technical school, and upgrade a local high school), and the manifestos people attached their names to in our ballot guides were truly insane 010
Matt Sams @mattsams.com · 28/05/2026Came for the bobsled, stayed for the golf fits and wild dating stories 0140
Matt Sams @mattsams.com · 20/05/2026www.calculatorsoup.com/calculators/...calculatorsoup.comPercentage Increase CalculatorPercentage increase calculator finds the increase from one value to another as a percentage of the first value. Shows you how to find percentage increase with percent increase formula. 000
Matt Sams @mattsams.com · 18/05/2026I’ve really enjoyed the “publish a chapter in our book” emails getting more and more out there the last few years. I got an invite to write about coronary stents; the research I’m on is all kinetic testing in athletes, so I have no clue how their system decided I would be a good target 030
Reposted by Matt SamsCharlie Gao @shikokuchuo.net · 12/05/2026Async R gets a proper memory model. mirai 2.7.0 and mori 0.2.0 on CRAN: - byte-level dispatcher queue cap: `daemons(memory = ...)` - non-blocking submit on a full queue: `try_mirai()` - mori out of experimental – zero-copy shared memory across processes opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-05... #rstatsopensource.posit.coA memory model for production async R: mirai 2.7.0 and mori 0.2.0Two CRAN releases extend R's foundations for production async: bounded queues and `try_mirai()` in mirai 2.7.0, plus mori 0.2.0 graduating from experimental status. 04010
Matt Sams @mattsams.com · 04/05/2026At least in the NFL, players and staff have to pay taxes to every state they travel to during the season. That was fun to discover when I needed to file in four states on top of the partial residency stuff between my home state and the team I worked for 000
Reposted by Matt SamsCharlie Gao @shikokuchuo.net · 23/04/2026Just released mori 0.1.0 on CRAN — a new R package for shared memory across processes. Parallel R no longer has to mean duplicating your dataset in every worker's RAM. opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-04... 🧵 1/3opensource.posit.comori: Shared memory for R objectsmori is a new R package for sharing R objects across processes via OS-level shared memory. Parallel workers get zero-copy, lazy ALTREP access to the same physical pages — share once, read anywhere. 917662
Reposted by Matt SamsNathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 11/04/2026ESCAPING ASTRONAUTS RECAPTURED DARING GETAWAY CUT SHORT JUST PAST LUNAR ORBIT SPACE CRIMINALS BROUGHT BACK TO EARTH TO STAND TRIAL "We're all in this big blue boat together." SAYS NASA SPOX IN NEW STATEMENT. "No exceptions allowed---not on our watch!" MOST SUCCESSFUL BREAKOUT ATTEMPT SINCE 1972 121345257
Reposted by Matt SamsMiles McBain @milesmcbain.bsky.social · 10/04/2026Guy I’m sponsoring very quietly releases #rstats package I’ve been wanting for the last couple of years. pkg.yihui.org/gglite/doc/g... Guess he shut up and took my money. 🤣🤣🤣pkg.yihui.orgIntroduction to ggliteA visualization in gglite is built by composing independent layers: 39821
Matt Sams @mattsams.com · 04/04/2026Granted, the image I’m running at work is a monolithic, kitchen sink type of thing, so YMMV if you prefer project level containers 010
Matt Sams @mattsams.com · 04/04/2026I’ve been doing that to run a custom image built off Rocker for work. As long as you haven’t changed the base image’s entry point, that should start right up! 210
Matt Sams @mattsams.com · 04/04/2026I’m sure they’re working on it, but not supporting volume mounts is tough. After I saw your blog, I started using devpod.sh As long as you `docker run -dit` with a set container name, something like this from the terminal works: devpod up {name} —source container:{container} —ide=positrondevpod.shDevPod - Open Source Dev-Environments-As-CodeDevPod is infrastructure-independent and client-only, which makes it incredibly easy to get started with. Codespaces but open-source, client-only and unopinionated. Works with any infra, any progammin... 210
Reposted by Matt SamsEuropean Space Agency @esa.int · 03/04/2026😮 Awesome views from Day 2 of #Artemis II this morning. @exploration.esa.int @esaearth.esa.int 2228761040
Matt Sams @mattsams.com · 24/03/2026I’ve done Arizona to New Jersey and back a few times. Hopefully, that stretch through lower west Texas and New Mexico was better than taking I40 the entire way 😵💫 010
Matt Sams @mattsams.com · 23/03/2026Funny enough, I worked with a bobsledder during grad school who went in for an adjustment and came out with a months-long battle with vertigo 010
Matt Sams @mattsams.com · 14/03/2026That’s been my experience, too. E.g., I had an extensive back and forth with Claude on refactoring a database transaction that was prone to deadlocking, and I think the result has been pretty successful. But I also (mostly) know what I’m doing and babysat it every step of the way 000
Matt Sams @mattsams.com · 13/03/2026I go to a run club in downtown Phoenix, and the route descriptions always go in one ear and out the other. A friend has started running with me, but before that, the anxiety around falling behind the group and getting lost was REAL 020
Matt Sams @mattsams.com · 13/03/2026Wait, I had always assumed my being thrown by visual changes was part of aphantasia, but it’s actually face blindness? Huh. Thankfully, most of my friends and family know/are cool about it, but it’s led to some awkward moments with people I haven’t seen in a few years 140
![Comic. [A person and a second person with a ponytail sitting at a table with a screen showing a soccer game behind them.] PERSON 1: They could be in trouble. Over the last 36 years, they’ve gone 0 for 2 when they’ve scored in the 37th minute to lead 2-1 against a team whose country comes before theirs alphabetically. [caption] I wish sports commentators hadn’t discovered p-hacking.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreia7nj3d2xiski77uifyleeowddz6c24e5tgcxrk4jy5j6o3i2wryu)
